Record away losing run

[lenners]

I know we lost 8 or something in the Prem but does anyone, ie Dazzler, know what the record is in the second tier?
Mind you, if we lose tomorrow night, there must be a good chance we'll be making it 11 on the trot on April 18 which sounds like a club record.

 

[Wards]

Which fireworks have you bought? You know, just in case

 

[happyhippy]

Not sure about the second tier, but the record for consecutive away defeats is 12 on the bounce in 1898/9. We were actually unbeaten away from home before the start of that losing run, including a draw against that lot, who finished two places below us, bottom of the pile, and relegated. We won the first away match of the following season at Everton 2-1.

The record for away matches without a win in the League is 18, in the 1975/6 season. In typical style, we were relegated with the last in that sequence at White Hart Lane, but then finally secured an away win the following week at Norwich.

ETA: these are just away league matches, by the way.

 

[Micalijo]

We will finish above wendy this season, won't we? Or, do you think we could enter freefall and stop winning at home?

 

[Darren]

I know we lost 8 or something in the Prem but does anyone, ie Dazzler, know what the record is in the second tier?
Mind you, if we lose tomorrow night, there must be a good chance we'll be making it 11 on the trot on April 18 which sounds like a club record.

Don't know what the record is in the 2nd tier but we lost 8 on the trot in the 3rd tier between 26/3/83 and 14/5/83. If we include cup games as well we also lost 8 on the trot when we were in the 3rd Division between 16/12/80 and 21/3/81.

I could be wrong, but I think the all time record is the 10 first tier defeats between 23/8/75 and 29/11/75.

 

[Grecian2000]

Don't know what the record is in the 2nd tier but we lost 8 on the trot in the 3rd tier between 26/3/83 and 14/5/83.

Hadn't Porterfield completely lost his marbles in this period and was trying to fit Morris, Towner, Curran, Young and Edwards into the team at the same time?
I went to every game that season and I honestly can't remember more than two or three of them with anything other than incredulity.

 

[Foxy]

I know we lost 8 or something in the Prem but does anyone, ie Dazzler, know what the record is in the second tier?
Mind you, if we lose tomorrow night, there must be a good chance we'll be making it 11 on the trot on April 18 which sounds like a club record.

In the interests of balance, does anyone know what the record winning run is and which manager achieved it?

 

[lenners]

In the interests of balance, does anyone know what the record winning run is and which manager achieved it?

No, Porterfield in the 4th division?

 

[happyhippy]

We will finish above wendy this season, won't we? Or, do you think we could enter freefall and stop winning at home?

Worryingly, that's actually in danger of becoming a serious question ..... to answer it, I think we will relatively comfortably, but .....

We struggled against Peterborough earlier in the year, QPR will be fired up by St Neil on Saturday, and Blackpool have been no pushovers this year. Yes, it's their home record which has really kept them up there or thereabouts (just like us really), but they have got seven away draws.

I still say it's not quite time to panic yet, but if we don't get too much from the next three, I think we really do have to look elsewhere .....

 

[Darren]

Not sure about the second tier, but the record for consecutive away defeats is 12 on the bounce in 1898/9. We were actually unbeaten away from home before the start of that losing run, including a draw against that lot, who finished two places below us, bottom of the pile, and relegated. We won the first away match of the following season at Everton 2-1.

The record for away matches without a win in the League is 18, in the 1975/6 season. In typical style, we were relegated with the last in that sequence at White Hart Lane, but then finally secured an away win the following week at Norwich.

ETA: these are just away league matches, by the way.

I was wrong about the first fact, but you are wrong on the second - the record for away league matches without a win is actually 23 between our 1-0 win at Reading on 4/11/97 and and our 2-0 win at Oxford on 24/10/98.

We still managed to get in the play offs in 1997-98 and weren't that far off in 98-99...

 

[happyhippy]

In the interests of balance, does anyone know what the record winning run is and which manager achieved it?

The record overall winning sequence is 8, several times over, most recently in our last promotion winning season, which was ended by Reading. The record for successive home wins is 10 in 1960/1, which was not only a promotion winning season in the second tier as well, but we also finished second!

The record away win sequence is 6 going back to 1892/3, when once again, we finished second in the second tier, and got promoted. That time though, it was via a 'Test Match' against Accrington. Thus we became the first football team in the world to have 'won' promotion.

 

[happyhippy]

I was wrong about the first fact, but you are wrong on the second - the record for away league matches without a win is actually 23 between our 1-0 win at Reading on 4/11/97 and and our 2-0 win at Oxford on 24/10/98.

We still managed to get in the play offs in 1997-98 and weren't that far off in 98-99...

Indeed. I'm right about it being the record during one season only though , but yes, you are more correct than me! I well remember that long period without an away win .....

 

[lenners]

Hadn't Porterfield completely lost his marbles in this period and was trying to fit Morris, Towner, Curran, Young and Edwards into the team at the same time?
I went to every game that season and I honestly can't remember more than two or three of them with anything other than incredulity.

Aye, definitely went a bit wacky races around then.
Was that the last time we played Doncaster in the league until last year? Seem to remember standing on an open terrace for a night match at Belle Vue, Towner playing and United losing 2-0.

 

[Elsecar_Blade]

I was wrong about the first fact, but you are wrong on the second - the record for away league matches without a win is actually 23 between our 1-0 win at Reading on 4/11/97 and and our 2-0 win at Oxford on 24/10/98.

We still managed to get in the play offs in 1997-98 and weren't that far off in 98-99...

I remember that run coming to an end at Oxford. It pissed it down on us and we were on that uncovered terrace at the Manor Ground. I was a drowned rat by the end of the game but goals from Katchouro (his first in ages) and Saunders or Taylor (forget which) secured a 2-0 win. And right at the end of the game, the sun came out and the sun shone on the Blades heroes ...

 

[oldblade]

Don't know what the record is in the 2nd tier but we lost 8 on the trot in the 3rd tier between 26/3/83 and 14/5/83.


Didn't that away losing run also coincide with an 8 or 9 game winning run at home? Seem to remember that we had one of the best home records in the division, but one of the worst away records.

 

[SwissBlade]

This is it!

Stop sitting around angrily tapping away at you disgust of our leader's media skills, leave out the whinging and moaning about the debts we've got.

Starting tomorrow or possibly sometime soon or maybe not so soon we're going to go on an unbeaten run both home and away, or one or neither. With or possibly with out Blackie in charge. We may not have any money or possibly we may but we could be in for some of the most or least enjoyable times as a Blade that you've ever witnessed!

Mark my words, now go out and buy your season tickets!

And if thats not enough, heres a picture of two of our most creative players that may or may not play for us again to convince you whilst holding Ikea Mugs...

The new season starts now... or possibly in the future sometime

 

[Sirius]

And if thats not enough, heres a picture of two of our most creative players that may or may not play for us again to convince you whilst holding Ikea Mugs...
Wondering whether we are the mugs Swiss Blade. Certainly the club treat us like mugs with the lack of information and the mis information spouted from the O.S.

 

[Blade]

What I do find interesting is that nearly all posters at the moment are posting of impending/existing inertia and apathy but the fact we all spend so much time on forums and angrily tapping away at the keyboard helps to prove we all care much more than even we may feel and it is good to see even if the tone is depressing.

now we just need the club to show they care with or without blackwell in charge.

 

[SwissBlade]

What I do find interesting is that nearly all posters at the moment are posting of impending/existing inertia and apathy but the fact we all spend so much time on forums and angrily tapping away at the keyboard helps to prove we all care much more than even we may feel and it is good to see even if the tone is depressing.

now we just need the club to show they care with or without blackwell in charge.

They care.... Look Camara is even giving us the thumbs up

 

[Revolution]

I remember that run coming to an end at Oxford. It pissed it down on us and we were on that uncovered terrace at the Manor Ground. I was a drowned rat by the end of the game but goals from Katchouro (his first in ages) and Saunders or Taylor (forget which) secured a 2-0 win. And right at the end of the game, the sun came out and the sun shone on the Blades heroes ...

Wettest game ever...I remember walking in the ground and being given a voucher to use if the game were abandoned, as it could well have been.

As you say, there was no cover at all. There were about 500 Blades there and a good 100 of them retreated to the toilets at half time in an attempt to stay dry for a bit.

I have no memory of the sun coming out. I thought it threw it down through the entire 90 minutes.

Of course, having won away for the 1st time in a year, United then won away the following Saturday as well, 3-2 at Port Vale.

 

[Kenilworth]

I remember that run coming to an end at Oxford. It pissed it down on us and we were on that uncovered terrace at the Manor Ground. I was a drowned rat by the end of the game but goals from Katchouro (his first in ages) and Saunders or Taylor (forget which) secured a 2-0 win. And right at the end of the game, the sun came out and the sun shone on the Blades heroes ...

Wettest game ever...I remember walking in the ground and being given a voucher to use if the game were abandoned, as it could well have been.

As you say, there was no cover at all. There were about 500 Blades there and a good 100 of them retreated to the toilets at half time in an attempt to stay dry for a bit.

I have no memory of the sun coming out. I thought it threw it down through the entire 90 minutes.

I remember similar weather at Oxford several years earlier where we got thumped 3-0. Oxford absolutely mullered us and played us off the park.

 

[lenners]

I remember similar weather at Oxford several years earlier where we got thumped 3-0. Oxford absolutely mullered us and played us off the park.

Which was the Oxford game when there was a pitch invasion and some feighting on the pitch?

 

[Bladesman]

We have let some good records slip and created new records under Blackwell.

The most annoying one is letting the pigs do the double.

 

[Darren]

I remember similar weather at Oxford several years earlier where we got thumped 3-0. Oxford absolutely mullered us and played us off the park.

That must have been the New Years Day game in 1990.